NDLI: Stack-free process-oriented simulation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Booth, C.J.M. Bruce, D.I.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: Defence Evaluation & Res. Agency, Malvern, UK (Booth, C.J.M.)
Abstract	The process interaction world view is widely used in the general simulation community for its expressive power, and is supported by most modern simulation languages. In parallel discrete event simulation, however, its use remains comparatively rare due to the perceived inefficiency (and difficulty) of parallel implementations. We present a new implementation strategy for parallel process-oriented simulation languages. This innovative, semantics-based approach directly addresses two common concerns of such languages. By concentrating on the intrinsic threads of control, we avoid the proliferation of simulation objects (and their associated costs) that might result from a naive translation. More fundamentally, the primary costs associated with process-oriented languages-those of context switching between stacks and, in an optimistic setting, of saving the state of these stacks-are entirely eliminated since our explicit use of continuations avoids the need for stacks in the first place. We similarly obtain cheap and natural thread pre-emption.
Starting Page	182
Ending Page	185
File Size	459184
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818679646
DOI	10.1109/PADS.1997.594605
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-06-10
Publisher Place	Austria
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Object oriented modeling Discrete event simulation Yarn Modems Cost function Logic Access protocols Insulation Programming profession Aging
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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